Right Change: Obama Uncomfortable on Defense

As the GOP primary has all but wrapped up and the head to head competition has started to heat up between Romney and Obama, Obama and his campaign team have found themselves playing defense on their heels. This is not a good spot for anyone looking to take the momentum in an election year and it is certainly not a position that Obama is used to.

Politico reports:

“The unmistakable reality for Democrats since Obama officially launched his re-election campaign three weeks ago. Obama, not Mitt Romney, is the one with the muddled message — and the one who often comes across as baldly politically. Obama, not Romney, is the one facing blowback from his own party on the central issue of the campaign so far – Romney’s history with Bain Capital. And most remarkably, Obama, not Romney, is the one falling behind in fundraising.

“To top it off, Vice President Joe Biden has looked more like a distraction this month than the potent working-class weapon Obama needs him to be.

(I believe that last statement may prove to be the understatement of the entire campaign. This could be one of the rare times the VP is dumped for the second go around.)

We have already looked at the Booker walk back (the video being compared to a hostage video), many prominent democrats uncomfortable with the bashing of venture capitalists and democratic senators not wanting any part of Obama as they run for re-election due to his struggling message. Obama is now viewed not as the agent of ‘Hope and Change’ but as a divisive and angry candidate who is striking out wildly in several directions.

“I feel like they are overly relying on the have-nots out-voting the haves,” said one well-known Democrat close to the campaign. “The economy has gotten a lot better for a lot of people. Instead of making those people feel good about growing businesses, the campaign seems to assume that angry people will prevail. There were successful business leaders in the 2008 coalition, who wanted to use their success to do good but we’re losing that inspiration.”

Not only is Obama running a scattered and divisive campaign, in a Washington Post/ABC News poll this week, nearly twice as many people said they were worse off financially under Obama than said they were better off. And more than half the respondents disapproved of Obama’s handling of the economy, for the 20th poll in a row. Ideology will only go so far until you start affecting people’s ability to feed and clothe their children.

Obama has also fallen behind in fundraising with Romney making up huge gaps in just one month. It has baffled many people as to how Obama can berate wealthy individuals and corporations on one hand, and reach in their pockets with the other. And, fundraising is not the only time he is trying to get more money out of the wealthiest Americans’ pockets.At a recent campaign stop Obama implored the crowd to tell their neighbors that this campaign is “still about Hope, and it’s still about Change”. Well, I have to agree with Obama on this one. I still have hope that we can make a change – in the President of the United States of America. 

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